Calendar

Read a suggestion this week that a calendar is a 'moral document' in the sense that it can reveal where our priorities lie. The suggestion was made particularly in terms of how much time parents give to their children.
I wander what our calendars/diaries reveal about our priorities?

The final hymn this morning was from Baptist Praise & Worship - 'Jesus, life of all the world' by Margaret Clarkson. She was a Canadian school teacher who is remembered as a writer of over 100 hymns (3 of which are in Baptist Praise & Worship). She died in 2008.

The hymn, Jesus life of all the world, ends with this stirring prayer for the Church –

Jesus, life of all the world,
You are Lord of every nation;
By your Holy Spirit’s power
Make your Church your incarnation;
Till our lives of truth and grace
Show the world your human face.

downtrodden grass

A recent 'Verse & Voice' email from the Sojourners included:-

As [Jesus] came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, "If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes."
- Luke 19:41-42

and

When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers.
- East African Proverb


A major outcome in our world when there is a struggle for dominance and power is often, as the proverb suggests, the 'grass' being downtrodden.